LdyEnki Reads Anger Is A Gift Chapters 1 And 2

LdyEnki Reads Anger is a Gift Chapters 1 and 2

I read “Anger is a Gift” by Mark Oshiro in the style of Mark Reads, stopping after each chapter to write down my reactions.  I am posting these reactions here.  I highly recommend everyone read this book and am happy to talk to people about it.  So here we go, LdyEnki is unprepared.

Chapter 1:

I am loving Moss and Esperanza already.

I knew about the interaction Moss has with Javier because I heard Mark give a reading of the scene where Moss tells his mother about him.  So I was excited from the second he showed up while also feeling Moss’s panic attack looming closer and closer, inevitable despite the techniques he tries to employ to stave it off. 

Chapter 2:

The line about renewal was a punch to the heart.  When will Moss get his renewal.  I’m only in the second chapter and already Mark is making me cry.  Moss sitting on the steps remembering his father and the horror of that night and trying to overlay that memory with good ones literally had me tearing up in public.  Note to Self: stop reading this book in public places.

(spoiler alert: I don’t learn my lesson)

an excellent response to bigoted parents!

A day late, but I love this. Percy, Nancy and Alex are wonderful and I hope to get to know the other characters as well.

Happy National Book Lovers Day! (August 9th)

Feel free to tell me about your favorite book/author/characters/etc if you wish, totally gush about books, I am here to listen.

Btw, do you know any of the characters above?

Reblog.  I will be posting my comments on the first few chapters very soon.

Ldyenki reads Anger is a Gift (Intro)

For those of you who don’t know, Mark Oshiro of Mark Reads wrote a YA contemporary fiction book called Anger is a Gift.  It came out in May.  I have been following Mark Reads since he was announced as a gust of honor at the first Crossingscon, and I very quickly went from puzzled ‘what is this, he does what?’ to ‘this is the most amazing idea ever.’  So I was very excited for the release of his first book and have been recommending it to everyone I know.

I decided that I would try to follow Mark’s style and read one chapter at a time, pausing after each to write down my thoughts without being influenced by knowing what happens next.  I will be posting what I wrote here, a few chapters at a time and if anyone wants to discuss this book with me I would love to talk about it.

There will be Spoilers.  If you do not want to be spoiled I will tag everything with ‘Ldyenki reads Anger is a Gift’.  I hope you will come along this journey with me.

I have been seeing lots of Vorkosigan references on my dash and it has made me curious about the series but this ^  This is what has moved it from “Oh I should probably add that to my reading list’ to ‘Yes, I need to add this to my reading list’.  No sure when I will get to it since I just started the 10 book Whyborne and Griffin series and I have a backlog of Seanan McGuire books to catch up on but I definitely need to read this.

I’m halfway into the first Miles Vorkosigan book, and so far it’s basically been “How to DM Around a Diplomancer: Space Opera Edition.”

Miles: “I tell the mercenaries I’m a mercenary commander and I bought up all their contracts from their captain, so they’re part of my company now.” DM: “Roll for Bluff. :)” Miles, who has a higher Bluff bonus than most gods: “34.” DM: “They want to know when copies of the regulation handbook will be distributed and what the health insurance plan is like. (: (: (:” Miles, sweating: “UUUUUUHHH”

There must be blood, the girl thought. There must always be blood. The Green Wind said that, so it must be true. It will be hard and bloody, but there will be wonders, too, or else why bring me here at all? And it’s the wonders I’m after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (via poolofjello)